The Dickinson press., 1887-10-01
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.

The Brainerd street-car track is ready
for the cars.
The issue of silver dollars for the week
was 81, 1853, 465.
The GAINESVILLE college opened Tuesday
with an an attendance of sixty.
There is no foundation for the report
that the Winona Harvester works will be
|. removed to Duluth.
Ed. Murphy, q Northern Pacific brake
man, fell between the cars at Royalton
and had his thigh crushed and several
ribs broken.
The residence of Mr.. Cowdery, at Roch-
ester, was entered by thieves during his
absence and clothing and valuable papers
are missing.
Work on the Yankton asylum is likely
to be resumed. as the trustees are called
to meet by Governor Church, and u COM
promise is in sight.
The Omaha its new Esca-
naba line open for business and gives the
time for leaving St. Paul as 0:40 p. m,
arriving in Escanaba at 5:45 p. IN. the
mex afternoon.
A new feature in the Matt Clark Trans
portation company failure ut Saltwater
Tuesday was the issuance Of writs of ut
tachment on the boats of the company
levied on by the sheriff.
The commissioners of Brown county
ordered an architect to prepare plans for
Il 5000 court house, to be built ut New
Tim, and Sleepy Eye parties have served
papers requiring the commissioners to
show cause why An injunction should
not be issued restraining them from its
erection.
George Francis Train spoke at New
York in favor Of the anarchists.
Sam Small has rented a house i'll Wash
ington and will remove to that city.
Tennessee convicts refused to go into
the mines to work and were fired on by
the guards. Three or four were wounded.
The Sovereign Grand lodge, /. o. O. f.
has concluded It's Denver meeting. The
next meeting will be held Mt Los Angeles,
California.
The Chicago, St. Louis md Philadel-
phia ball clubs will pay Il schedule of
games ut Central park, San Francisco,
this winter.
$4,000. He has a special train consist
AAE " ll IiSlLA DtAAdES nANk ouppl Shk
and two palace cars.
The Central Labor union of New York,
after getting into II row, adopted resolu-
tons to appoint a committee to call a
mass meeting to condemn the sentences
of the Chicago anarchists. A minority of
the members left the hall.
An old lady, Mrs. Stewart, Of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, was fatally burned on
Saturday night by Il lamp explosion. The
house was destroyed.
The Standard Oil gang have held a con-
gress in Buffalo, and determined to stop
production at all wells under their con-
troll until they are able to establish a
material advance in the price of oil.
American railroad securities We're de-
pressed throughout the week on the
London stock exchange. There were
occasional symptoms of n reaction, but
the rise was always followed by a further
decline.
One day last week the postof1ce de-
partment bought $139, 000of European ex-
change to cover one days issue ofmoney-
orders issued OH the British p~ostotfice
money-order bureau and one weeks issue
of orders on the continent of Europe.
Under the order restoring to settlement
the indemnity lands of the Northern Pa
citic railroad, from 81, 1000 to 3d. 600 acres
will be open for entry in Otter Tail and
Douglas counties, Minnesota, on the first
of December, at the Fergus Falls land
office.
The independent nti-Prohibition Re
publicans of Iowa have issued an nd,
dress, in which it is asserted that taxes
in Des Moines have been increased 20 per
cent, although there has been nothing to
increase expenditures except the cost OF
attempting to enforce prohibition.
Tucson, in Arizona, is beginning tc
boom the next Indiar war. Mr.. w. b.
Horton was killed by an Apache scout;
the bystanders pursued and killed the
savage, and the report adds, but this
will not end the matter. The citizens
will take the matter in their own hands
and kill Indians on sight"